This is a story about the coming millennium, and it begins in the Texas Hill Country, somewhere west of Austin. It hasn't rained in weeks, and, though the weather is cool, it...
It used to be that come the weekend, one could spend most of his time swinging in a hammock with his headphones on listening invariably to one of several well-exhausted...
Crapitto's Luck: Last April John Crapitto hit the jackpot when his restaurant, the abysmally named Crapitto's [2400 Mid Lane, (713)961-1161], was mentioned on the Jay Leno...
Has any major American director had quite so many career swings as Robert Altman? Maybe not, but if there's one thing the last 30 years have made clear, it is that it's never...
Thursday April 8 Once and for all, where's Party on the Plaza? Well, the same place it always has been. Thanks to the "urban revitalization" of the Bayou Place area,...
Lots of folks know Wallace Shawn's acting. He has played everyone from the sardonic whining Vayna in Vayna on 42nd Street to the balding, nerdy high school teacher in...
Get ready, film fans. The indie invasion of Houston is under way. The curtains go up Friday, April 9, on Three Seasons, but it will begin the 32nd season for the...
When a music listener is appreciative during a live show, he might do one of several things. He could clap vigorously. Or perhaps snap his fingers like a beatnik. Or even fire...
Lickety-split ribs: Backyard cookout purists may sniff at barbecue-in-a-box, but it's hard to fault the Honey Jalapeno Ribs served from spotless glass cases at Yapa Kitchen...
Steve Martin says he doesn't want audiences to expect the same old Steve Martin whenever he stars in a comedy. But that means one thing when he's referring to Roxanne and L.A....
"Hell, it's just a reunion," says Sherwood Cryer. "All them damn people from Gilley's come out here and relive what went on, look at each other and see how ugly each other are...
When the new year began, you couldn't go anywhere without hearing about Y2K. Even daily newspapers and the Red Cross were advising people to hoard water, food and cash. Y2K is...
Film festivals usually announce themselves with a slightly hysterical roar. Hey! Eric Stoltz is going to be in town! And maybe Hal Hartley! Parker Posey almost certainly! See...
There's always a time and place for the bold orchestral strains of Beethoven's Ninth or Copeland's "Fanfare for the Common Man." But to the early-music buff, the advent of the...
Eating out has become strenuous. The chef of the moment unveils the exotic new ingredient of the week, working it into the fusion cuisine of his choice (Pan Asian, New...
Antonio Caido was just walking down the boardwalk one day when he fell into a hole and died. That's the premise behind the new dance-theater piece by Brazilian-born and New...
Houston Independent School District last week asked a principal and three teachers to resign for alleged TAAS testing irregularities, which were the subject of a recent Houston...
Marshall Allen carries himself like a 75-year-old jazzman from the South. He's got an easygoing, benevolent and embracing manner so natural that picturesque images of children...
Housed in a long, low bungalow tucked away on an inlet of Offats Bayou, across the shallows of Galveston Bay from the improbable pyramids of Moody Gardens, Clary's seafood...
You see some pieces in print or on the air, and you sit back and wonder, "How'd they ever get that story?" You see some others, and you sit back and say, "Boy, I can almost...
